GRE Word List
ENDEMIC
belonging or native to a particular people or country
The meaning of the word endemic is belonging or native to a particular people or country.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| agenda | a list or outline of things to be considered or done |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |